New Book Records the Rise of National Christianist Movement
Salon.com has printed a lengthy and worthwhile excerpt from the new book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.
The excerpt is too long and detailed to be adequately summarized; suffice it to say for now that individuals and ideas within Christian nationalism (or national Christianism, take your pick) seem to mirror the National Socialists’ blend of sanctimonious and distorted Bible readings; patriotism; a desire to use government power, money, and surveillance to impose their own self-serving religious “dominion” upon God and society; and contempt for the freedom of competing faiths and cultural groups.
Addendum: At Talk To Action, author Michelle Goldberg makes some distinctions between fundamentalism and “Christian nationalism.”
This is and always has been the foundation of what the Christian Right (typically anti-gay) is all about. Money, power and world domination are their ultimate goals. They care little for civil rights and for diversity that is such a universal principle found throughout nature and the universe.
The T.V. Evangelical movement along with many of the typical radio evangelists including the ex-gay movement is a pseudo-Christianity that is cultic in nature. These cults continue to grow and expand because of ignorance in society and a lack of critical thinking throughout our nation. Hopefully mainline Christian Churches that are accepting, supportive and celibratory of diversity including GLBT diversity will speak out more loudly than ever before. Hopefully these Churches will start to fight back through educating and serving those in need like never before, thus showing forth the true nature of Christianity which is about authentic unconditional love and service to others.
Audio of an NPR interview of the author Michelle Goldberg.
…regarding the new book. Homepare of the book is here.
Michelle Goldberg’s Alternative Reality7/5/2006By Stephanie WarnerConcerned Women for AmericaExcerpt: